Show ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR FARM HOMES A small electric plant suitable for a farm more farmers should investigate the possibilities of having their own electric plants for furnishing light and power according to L T perrill of kansas farmers will shortly by bp as much interested in lighting plants as they are now in automobiles this Is demonstrated by the tact fact that at a recent state farmers far mera institute in kansas more than farmers inspected an electric plant and were much interested te in its operation mr air perrill perrall continues the common rural lighting outfit offered for sale includes a dynamo to generate the electricity a gasoline engine to run the dynamo a switchboard and a storage battery to store electrical energy to be used by the lamps and small motors without running the engine A good completo complete system can be purchased and installed for loss less than not much more than one of the dangerous gas plants costs this can be lowered it if the farmer has a gasoline engine orl or wires his house himself electric lights will lower the insurance rate A ono one horsepower engine or an additional dit ional horsepower to any engine will run a dynamo large enough tor for a ten ampere outfit A ten ampere outfit Is satisfactory for tho the average farm when tho largo large power Is to bo supplied by the gasoline engine the dynamo can be run at tho the same time requiring a little more gasoline but no more time the dynamo switchboard and battery are shipped ready to set up in most cases a good electrician should be secured to install the dynamo and cells and do the wiring A ten ampere battery will operate all the lights required for a seven or eight room house bouso as well as aa lights for the out buildings in addition a small vacuum cleaner electric toaster wringer washing machine sewing machine fan or electric iron can be used the farmer after determining the number and ches of lights he bo desires in each room must estimate the number of hours houra they will burn in the morning and evening these figures can be obtained from the number of 0 hours that artificial light Is used now the average house with seven rooms cellars and closets should burn loss liss than throe three hundred watts a week the storage battery of a ton ten ampere outfit will produce three hundred watts without re charging it takes eight hours to charge the battery after it has ben discharged comPle completely the cost of wiring the house bouse will vary between forty and one hundred dollars depending upon the amount and grade of wiring and the fixtures used A house can be wired cheaper when it Is built than a at t any other time the cost of upkeep la is slight blight |